On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
John Keats

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet never did I breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then I felt like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

初读贾浦曼译荷马有感

我游历了很多金色的国度，
看过不少好的城邦和王国，
还有多少西方的海岛，歌者
都已使它们向阿波罗臣服。
我常听到有一境域，广阔无垠，
智慧的荷马在那里称王，
我从未领略的纯净、安详，
直到我听见贾浦曼的声音

无畏而高昂。于是，我的情感
有如观象家发现了新的星座，
或者像科尔特斯，以鹰隼的眼
凝视着大平洋，而他的同伙
在惊讶的揣测中彼此观看，
尽站在达利安高峰上沉默。